“Salacious gossip” [FN1] [FN2] doesn’t sound like speech the 1st Amendment [FN3] was meant to protect. Jefferson faced such gossip, that he’d been father of children w/Sally Hemings. [FN4]. DNA tests in 1998 established a high likelihood the gossip was truth. [FN5] 1/14

Some gov’t officials want to erase our history in favor of a fictional their Christian nationalist storyline. [FN6] Chilling free speech enables placement of a false narrative before the public. We cannot allow lies to supplant our history. 2/14

A major purpose of the 1st Amendment was to protect free discussion of governmental affairs & candidates, how “government is operated or should be operated, and all such matters relating to political processes.” [FN7] Public officials are elected & unelected. [FN8] 3/14

Free speech about public figures also is protected, especially when they thrust their personality into a vortex of an important public controversy. [FN9] trump’s wife has filed suit in the past for defamation. [FN10] Her wannabe dictator hubby wants to end our republic. 4/14

With trump 2.0 have come changes to the public persona of the WFLOTUSSMJB. [FN11] “Melania,” set for release 1/30/26, [FN12] “follows Melania Trump’s life as First Lady, concentrating on inauguration planning and public responsibilities.” AmazonMGM 5/14

paid $40 million for the film. [FN13] Jeff Bezos started Amazon and owns The Washington Post, [FN14] whose editorial policies he altered. [FN15] He “has cozied up” to trump in trump’s second term. [FN16] The flick is soft sell propaganda & Bezos gets brownie points. 6/14

Speech about running of this country is protected. When a family is lining up to be installed as a monarchy, relevant questions go to whether the youngest kid, who has dual citizenship, is here as an “anchor baby” or a future king. 7/14

Ads for “Melania” thrust her fluff piece into the vortex of public discourse & our homes. Sex trafficking & Epstein and Jefferson’s rapes of Sally Hemings are both important to our history and disgusting, but Epstein witnesses are still alive. Release the Epstein files. 8/14

Footnotes:
FN1. “salacious”: “lustful or lecherous ... obscene; grossly indecent.” Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (2d ed, 2001), p. 1693.
FN2. “gossip”: “idle talk or rumor, esp about the personal or private affairs of others.” Id., p. 825. 9/14

FN3. “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...” U.S. Const. Amend I.
FN4. Joseph J Ellis, “American Sphinx,” (1997) pp, 255-59.
FN5. Jon Meachum, “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” (2012), p. 507. 10/14

FN6. E.g., “Indiana Lt. Governor faces backlash after comments on Three-Fifths Compromise,”
by Christian Farr, NBC Chicago, 4/30/25.
FN7. Mills v Alabama, 384 U.S. 214, 218-19 (1966).
FN8. Rosenblatt v. Baer, 383 U.S. 75, 85-86 (1966). 11/14

FN9. Curtis Publishing Co v Butts, 388 U.S. 130, 155 (1967).
FN10. Owen Bowcott and Holly Watt, “Melania Trump accepts Daily Mail damages and apology in libel case,” The Guardian, 4/12/17, accessed 1/20/26.
FN11. Worst First Lady of the United States Since Mrs James Buchanan. 12/14

FN12. Advaita Suresh, “Melania Trump's documentary a big flop? Here's what reports say,” The Economic Times, last updated 1/18/26, accessed 1/20/26.
FN13. Id.
FN14. “The Washington Post,” Britannica, accessed 1/20/26. 13/14

FN15. Jeff Abrams, “Washington Post’s turnaround on its opinion pages is returning journalism to its partisan roots − but without the principles,” The Conversation, 3/17/25, accessed 1/20/26.
FN16. Eamon Javers and Annie Palmer, “Trump met with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at the White House last week, sources say,” CNBC, 7/22/25, accessed 1/20/26. 14/14